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This view was taken from the Tower Pier of Tower Bridge, with busy Butler's Wharf behind. To the right we can see Courage's brewery, dating from 1789; it closed in 1982.

Closer to the sea, the upper promenade climbs east to pass the Wish Tower with the sea now some way below.

On its summit are the remains of Jubilee Tower, built at a cost of £6,000 to celebrate the Jubilee (the 50th year of his reign) of George III in 1810, and once a prominent landmark.

This stunning panorama looks south-east over the battlements and roofs of London's most celebrated building and towards the river and Tower Bridge.

This tower escaped demolition during the Dissolution because it was a prominent landmark for ships entering the harbour.

The front would have been twice as high with turrets on the end towers, and with a massive central tower and spire, probably three times the height of the Norman Tower.

Jumbo the water tower can be seen, but work had only just started on the town hall, so its great tower has not yet appeared. The foliage clump in the water is still here a hundred years later.

This Victorian photograph was taken from Folly Bridge, which originally had a tower and gatehouse and was used by Roger Bacon, the 13th-century astronomer and scientist, as an observatory.

Flint was given a large but weak outer bailey, but the rectangular inner ward was supported with towers at the angles.

The Tea Gardens have long closed, but peeping over the roof is the squat battlemented tower of de Braose's Norman church, brutally treated subsequently, but notable for the 1070s tower arch capitals: wonderfully

King John lavished money on Lancaster, building curtain walls, round towers and Hadrian's Tower. In 1322 Robert the Bruce sacked the town, but was unable to take the castle.

St Michael's Church is unique in the county in having the base of the tower open on three sides. There is a picture with the arches walled up, but they were unblocked in the mid 1800s.

It stands between the Great Tower on the left and Buckden Towers on the right, built in 1872 for Marshall Snelgrove.

The tower of St Swithun's church, very much a landmark, shows where the old town is centred.

It is very well maintained and has been created in what remains of the original dry moat that surrounded the Round Tower. St George's Tower can be seen in the background.

clock tower. The richly- treated upper part has sculpted figures representing the four winds. Visually, the tower also successfully unites the Law Courts with the City Hall.

The walls and towers surrounding the county gaol, court house and Clifford's Tower were not medieval. They were in fact designed by Sydney Smith, Rector of Foston, and built in the 1820s.

The clock tower, with public lavatories at its base, was about 100 years old when this picture was taken. The tower commemorates the Public Health Act of 1848.

The old church had a medieval nave and chancel, and its brick west tower, built around 1800, replaced a medieval timber bell tower.

It is a busy beach in the Swinging Sixties: these people are not day trippers to Heysham, but guests of Middleton Towers who have made their way to the beach for a day of free activity and entertainment

We are looking down this attractive street to the St Thomas and Newport part of Launceston, where the old church tower is just visible.

On the right, the warm, brown fletton brick tower of Sir Giles Scott's Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of the Assumption soars above the surrounding buildings lining the broad street.

This view of the church tower clearly shows the tenuous link between it and the main body of the building.

A temporary wall separates it from the crossing tower and the dust from the building works beyond the west tower arch.